No. 7 Women's @RazorbackTF Wins Seven Events at Indoor Season-Opener
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The No. 7 Arkansas women’s track and field team opened the 2015 season with seven event titles and a pair of top times on Friday at the Arkansas Invitational at Randal Tyson Track Center.
Arkansas Invitational
Date: Friday, Jan. 9, 2015
Venue: Randal Tyson Track Center (5,000+) | Fayetteville, Ark.
Meet Field: Arkansas, Missouri State, Stephen F. Austin, Texas State, Tulsa
Final Results: ArkansasRazorbacks.com
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Sophomore Brianna Swinton had an impressive first outing of the season, winning her two competitions of the day, including setting a new personal-record with a 55.25 finish in the 400 meter dash. Her time of 24.20 in the 200 meter gave her a second event title on the day.
Junior Chrishuna Williams and senior Sandi Morris recorded the best NCAA marks of the season in the 800 meter and pole vault, respectively. Williams recorded a time of 2:07.76, setting a new personal-record, en route to earning the top spot in the event. Morris picked up the pole vault title with her mark of 14-5.25. She also attempted to break the collegiate pole vault record, missing at 15-1.5 three times.
Sophomore’s Regan Ward and Taliyah Brooks took home event titles with personal-record performances. Ward won the mile with a time of 4:49.58, while Brooks’ 8.49 gave her first place in the 60M hurdles.
Arkansas’ seventh event title came in the long jump, when Tamara Myers earned the title with a mark of 20-1.75.
Distance runner Dominique Scott made the most of her season debut with a blistering 2:42.60 (PR) to finish second in the 1000 meters (an event not contested at the NCAA Championships), which is the No. 8 time in collegiate history, per Track & Field News. The senior, who was sixth overall at the 2014 NCAA Cross Country Championships, finished her race Friday as the runner-up behind former teammate Stephanie Brown of Nike.
The Razorbacks return next Friday, January 16 for the Texas Duals. The highly-anticipated competition between to the two schools is slated for 6 p.m. at Randal Tyson Track Center.
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Arkansas Invitational
60 Meter Dash
3.) Shekara Boakye – 7:60
200 Meter Dash
1.) Brianna Swinton – 24:20
4.) Daina Harper – 24.98
5.) Shekara Boakye – 25.18
12.) Kaylee McCarthy – 25.83
400 Meter Dash
1.) Brianna Swinton – 55.25
2.) Daina Harper – 55.60
600 Meter Run
3.) Therese Haiss – 1:35.17
800 Meter Run
1.) Chrishuna Williams – 2:07.76
2.) Sparkle McKnight – 2:11.92
3.) Jessica Kamilos – 2:13.21
6. Chandler Crumblish – 2:20.31
Women’s 1000 Meter Run
2.) Dominique Scott – 2:42.60
4.) Diane Robison – 2:48.23
5.) Valerie Reina – 2:50.21
1 Mile
1.) Regan Ward – 4:49.58
5.) Samantha Mohler – 5:03.95
10.) Logan Bishop – 5:18.19
60 Meter Hurdles
1.) Taliyah Brooks – 8.49
2.) Alex Gochenour – 8.65
4.) Leigha Brown – 8.82
4×400 Meter Relay
3.) Brown, Gochenour, Morris, Brooks – 3:48.63
6.) Harper, McKnight, Swinton, McCarthy – 3:53.97
High Jump
3.) Alyssa Parker – 4-11
Pole Vault
1.) Sandi Morris – 14-5.25
3.) Desiree Freier – 13-9.25
5.) Megan Zimlich/Ariel Voskamp – 12-11.5
7.) Ariel Lachance – 12-5.5
9.) Stephanie Diettinger – 10-0
Long Jump
1.) Tamara Myers – 20-1.75
2.) Taliyah Brooks – 19-2.75
4.) Aatiyah Henry – 18-3
5.) Alex Gochenour – 10-0.5
7.) Leigha Brown – 17-3.25
Fayetteville, the “Track Capital of the World”, will be at the center of the track and field universe on the weekend of March 13-14 as the Razorbacks will host the 2015 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Randal Tyson Track Center, the home of the “Fastest Indoor Track in the World”. Since the facility’s opening in 2000, Arkansas and the Randal Tyson Track Center have hosted the event 11 times, including nine straight seasons and 11 of the last 13 championships.
A two-day, all-session ticket to the NCAA Indoor Championships is $40 for reserved seating and $30 for general admission adult ticket.
Season tickets and NCAA all-session passes are available online at HERE, by contacting the Razorback Athletics Ticket Center via phone at (800) 982-HOGS or in person at the Razorback Athletics Ticket Center, located just east of Baum Stadium at 1295 S. Razorback Rd. in Fayetteville.
